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'Christian' Pat Robertson calls for the assassination of Venezuela's President Chavez
Vheadline.com ^ | 8/22/05 | staff

Posted on 08/22/2005 5:43:04 PM PDT by Rebelbase

hristian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club host Pat Robertson ... founder of the Christian Coalition of America has called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias.

In a direct transcript of his August 22 The 700 Club broadcast Robertson clearly says:

There was a popular coup that overthrew him [Chavez]. And what did the United States State Department do about it? Virtually nothing. And as a result, within about 48 hours that coup was broken; Chavez was back in power, but we had a chance to move in. He has destroyed the Venezuelan economy, and he's going to make that a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent.

You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.

It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop. But this man is a terrific danger and the United ... this is in our sphere of influence, so we can't let this happen.

We have the Monroe Doctrine, we have other doctrines that we have announced. And without question, this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us very badly.

We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability.

We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hugochavez; patrobertson; venezuela; viacondios
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To: F16Fighter
Btw, would it have been wrong for the Pope to have called for the execution of Adolf Hitler in 1940?

Yes.

But only because the Vatican would then have been destroyed by 1941.

21 posted on 08/22/2005 5:53:31 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (The constitution is not in exile, it's in a nice safe deposit box in the Cayman Islands - Lileks)
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To: since1868

We need to deal with him like we did with Qaddafi in mid 80s


22 posted on 08/22/2005 5:53:53 PM PDT by F14 Pilot (Democracy is a process not a product)
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To: Rebelbase

LOL...

Assignation...that sounds much WORSE than assasination...

They don't actually kill you, they just put a bullet in your ass!


23 posted on 08/22/2005 5:54:14 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: Rebelbase
"We have the Monroe Doctrine..."

We did, Pat, up until president Kennedy threw it away over the Cuban missle crisis.

24 posted on 08/22/2005 5:54:26 PM PDT by nightdriver
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To: Rebelbase

This is an absolutely rediculous idea. A US assisination of Chavez would be the absolute best thing to spread his brand of leftism across Latin America. Chavez would be a martyr and someone else from his leftist party would take control, with more popular support.


25 posted on 08/22/2005 5:54:31 PM PDT by NatsFan
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To: Rebelbase
 

"We have the Monroe Doctrine"

You have a good idea Pat but the Monroe Doctrine specifically warrants from meddling in the Western Hemisphere by European counties, not idiots like Chavez.

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26 posted on 08/22/2005 5:54:32 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko (Liberals believe common sense facts are open to debate!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

"a man of the cloth to be calling for an assassination is way off base."

My point exactly.


27 posted on 08/22/2005 5:54:38 PM PDT by Rebelbase ("Run Hillary Run" bumper stickers. Liberals place on rear bumper, conservatives put on front bumper)
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To: Cicero

You are right..plus this fool has invited Muslim terrorist supporting nations to conferences...this guy will sponser ANY terrorism against the US...TAKE HIM OUT.


29 posted on 08/22/2005 5:54:49 PM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: Impeach the Boy

Well, I guess we can just strike "Thou shalt not kill" and replace it with "Thou shalt not kill, unless it's a democratically elected leader who one disagreeth with".

Face it, this is reprehensible behavior on Robertson's part--and for those bringing up the Churchill/Hitler analogy, what are you talking about? Please, I would LOVE to be enlightened about the Hugo Chavez plan for widespread genocide...


30 posted on 08/22/2005 5:54:49 PM PDT by freethinker22
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To: Rebelbase

I don't see this as damaging to Christianity at all. Chavez is an enemy of Christ.


31 posted on 08/22/2005 5:55:12 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: Impeach the Boy

Churchill had tact.


32 posted on 08/22/2005 5:55:31 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (see my FR page for a link to the tribute to Terri Schaivo, a short video presentation.)
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To: Rebelbase

We don't actually have to assassinate him...just bribe a few Venezuelan generals to do it for us. It's just war by another means....and Chavez has it coming.


33 posted on 08/22/2005 5:56:20 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Liberals preach comity and practice calumny.)
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To: Impeach the Boy

"You are right..plus this fool has invited Muslim terrorist supporting nations to conferences."

Which ones, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia?


34 posted on 08/22/2005 5:57:07 PM PDT by Lord_Baltar
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To: wagglebee

Bingo


35 posted on 08/22/2005 5:57:14 PM PDT by since1868
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To: dubyaismypresident
"But only because the Vatican would then have been destroyed by 1941."

Sheer conjecture.

Remember -- the Italians were 95% Catholic, as were many Germans and other Europeans.

36 posted on 08/22/2005 5:58:05 PM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: Rebelbase
I just find a hypocrisy between a man who claims to represent the Kingdom of Christ and the same man advocating assignation.

There are two asses in ass-ass-i-na-tion.

37 posted on 08/22/2005 5:58:07 PM PDT by SALChamps03
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To: Rebelbase

And the problem is......?????


38 posted on 08/22/2005 5:58:10 PM PDT by mountn man (Everyone brings joy into a room. Some when they enter. Others when they leave)
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To: SALChamps03

" There are two asses in ass-ass-i-na-tion."

Spell check strikes again!


39 posted on 08/22/2005 5:59:27 PM PDT by Rebelbase ("Run Hillary Run" bumper stickers. Liberals place on rear bumper, conservatives put on front bumper)
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To: Rebelbase

Read the Old Testament. God told the Isrealites to wipe out whole cites, women and children alike, in order to keep evil from spreading. We would do well to follow his lead instead of long drawn out wars.


40 posted on 08/22/2005 5:59:40 PM PDT by bella1 (red county, blue state)
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